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Family Planning in Peru. Miranda Velikoff. Total Fertility Rates. Total Fertility Rates Cont. Potential Effects of Population Growth. Two popular theories…

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Total fertility rate is lower among women with high levels of education and living in urban areas. These women are also more likely to know about and use contraceptive methods. The contraceptive method they choose is more likely to be a modern method.

“The fertility rate among poor women is 6.9 children –they are poor and are producing more poor people. The president is aware that the government cannot fight poverty without reducing poor people’s fertility. Thus, demographic goals are a combination of the population’s right to access family planning and the government’s anti-poverty strategy.”

“We were required to perform a certain number of sterilizations each month. This was obligatory and if we did not comply, we were fired. Many providers did not inform women that they were going to be sterilized – they told them the procedure was something else. But I felt this was wrong. I preferred to offer women a bag of rice to convince them to accept the procedure and explained to them beforehand what was going to happen.”

While the TFR in Peru has been steadily decreasing, it is important to remember that the TFR is an average and is not homogeneous throughout the population. The socio-economic conditions of different populations affects is directly relate to the TFR as well as the actions of the Catholic Church. It is important to look at all of these aspects when investigating the situation of the country.

Angeles, Gustavo, David K. Guilkey, and Thomas A. Mroz. "The Determinants of Fertility in Rural Peru: Program Effects in the Early Years of the National Family Planning Program." Journal of Population Economics 18.2 (2005): 367-89. EBSCO Host. Web. 11 Mar. 2011.